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Movie · 2028

Movie · 2027

Paramount Pictures’ upcoming “Call of Duty” movie from writer Taylor Sheridan will be based on the Xbox-owned first-person shooter franchise’s “Modern Warfare” games. Plot details about the movie have been kept under wraps since it was first announced in September 2025. But during a “Call of Duty in Culture Panel” promoting the October release of “Modern Warfare 4,” which took place at Fanatics Fest in NYC Saturday, “Call of Duty” movie director and co-writer Peter Berg took the stage to reveal to fans that the film will be set in the “Modern Warfare” universe. Since the original game’s release in 2003, the “Call of Duty” franchise has grown to include more than 30 mainline games. Among the dozens of titles, which have hailed from different developers over the years but are now all under Xbox via its purchase of publisher Activision, are the “Modern Warfare” games. Beginning with “Call of Duty 4:

Spoilers for "The Odyssey" follow. Christopher Nolan hadn't tread into the high fantasy genre territory before making "The Odyssey." If anything, it seems contrary to Nolan's whole ethos of a filmmaker of wrapping his head around a story's technical detail. Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy was all about bringing Batman down into the real world, while his feuding magician movie "The Prestige" explores in depth the practical mechanics behind stage magic tricks.  But in a tale like "The Odyssey," you can't hide from the fantastical. For his part, Nolan doesn't, at least not totally. The Gods are offscreen presences in the film, besides Odysseus (Matt Damon) seeing brief visions of Athena

So, a Homerist, an archaeologist and a dentist walk into a bar. Fresh from a Thursday night showing of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” a group of 17 spent the evening doing what scholars have done with Homer’s epic for nearly 3,000 years: arguing about it. “We had a really robust debate,” says Joel P. Christensen, editor of “The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer’s Odyssey.” Christensen was accompanied by retired Homer scholars (often referred to as Homerists), editors, professors, historians and various public intellectuals. “And my wife is a dentist,” he adds, “so she was the red herring in the crowd.” The conversation ranged from Nolan’s decision to make Polyphemus (the Cyclops that Matt Damon’s Odysseus stabs in the eye) nonverbal to the film’s depiction of language itself. Each intellectual was fervently dedicated to a different academic discipline, yet Homer’s “The Odyssey” is one of the

The weather was mythical. Ninety-something degrees in Manhattan, with Canadian wildfire smoke painting the sky a hazy orange. It smelled like a barbecue of rotten onions; the air was a spritz of acid to the eyes. “Stay inside,” warned the weather app. The gods hath forsaken us, I thought on the opening night of “The Odyssey,” washing me and 650 other castaways onto the shores of the Upper West Side, where a 2 a.m. screening of the Christopher Nolan epic in Imax 70mm was playing to an entirely sold-out room. If staying up all night at the movies sounds crazy, then the Lincoln Square AMC was a psych ward. It should be noted that this screening was not a novelty — a one-off, all-night experience for Nolan nerds and Classics majors. No, AMC has set up 2 a.m., 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. screenings through the film’s fourth weekend to meet the demand for Imax 70mm.

On "Reacher," Alan Ritchson plays a vigilante with bruiser brawn, a keen intelligence that he puts to use for detective work, and a stony exterior. So, little surprise that Ritchson is a popular pick to play Batman — and it's a role he wants, too. Ritchson is a dead ringer for the super-muscular 6' 9 Bruce Wayne from the mega-popular "Absolute Batman" comic series by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta. With an animated "Absolute Batman" on the way, perhaps Ritchson can lend his voice to this younger, rougher Dark Knight. It wouldn't be the first DC Comics role on his resume, either. He appeared in the live-action Superman prequel "Smallville" as Arthur "AC" Curry,

“The Odyssey” didn’t need a Trojan Horse to break into the top of Friday’s box office charts. Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” earned $51 million on Friday from 3,919 North American screens. Early estimates had the saga grossing $90 million to $100 million by Sunday, but after a stellar opening day, forecasts have the film climbing as high as $120 million. “The Odyssey” will soon become the third film in 2026 to open above $100 million after “Toy Story 5” ($159 million) and “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” ($131 million). “The Odyssey” carries a hefty $250 million price tag. An $120 million opening for “The Odyssey” would rank as Nolan’s best since “The Dark Knight Rises,” which debuted to a staggering $160 million in 2012. Weekend one projections for “The Odyssey” blow past Nolan’s 2023 best picture winner, “Oppenheimer,” which made $82 million over its opening weekend and powered to $975 million by the end of its run. Also, with $51 million on Friday,